>hates allegory in literature>likes the metamorphosisExplain.
>>24985175metamorphosis wasn't an allegory, it's just a hilarious story about a dude who turned into a bug>As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed...INTO A GIANT INSECT AHAHAHAHAHA
>>24985178Threadly reminder that there is no textual evidence for Gregor Samsa turning into a bug in the original German. He is described as waking up to find that he is a "hideous vermin" and being appalled by his own skin, feet, hands, etc.
>>24985189>Er lag auf seinem panzerartig harten Rücken und sah, wenn er den Kopf ein wenig hob, seinen gewölbten, braunen, von bogenförmigen Versteifungen geteilten Bauch, auf dessen Höhe sich die Bettdecke, zum gänzlichen Niedergleiten bereit, kaum noch erhalten konnte. Seine vielen, im Vergleich zu seinem sonstigen Umfang kläglich dünnen Beine flimmerten ihm hilflos vor den Augen.ja, definitiv kein bug
>>24985175"allegory" used to mean something different. People were taught a lot of classic greek and roman texts which are allegorical in a really overt and obnoxious way. These days nobody is taught these texts and when we think of allegory we think of 1984 and the like, which, while allegorical, also attempt to tell a compelling story.
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>>24985189>there is no textual evidence for Gregor Samsa turning into a bug in the original GermanThis is completely false.
>>24985175Metamorphosis isn't an allegory. Kafka literally just wrote a story about what would happen if a character turned into a bug. There's no other intent
>>24985175>hates allegoryWhy do some good artists and philosophers and such have random retarded opinions about fundamental aspects of human experience?>Absolute metaphors" answer the supposedly naïve, theoretically unanswerable questions whose relevance lies quite simply in the fact that they cannot be brushed aside, since we do not pose them ourselves but find them already posed in the ground of our existence. They leap into a void that concepts are unable to fill.
>>24985175Since I don't want to create a thread.To the anon who said Nabokov wrote about gay sex the same way as he did about the molestation of Lolita.Go and find a glass covered barbed wire adumbrated Bihari Jeet dick. Swallow it. Anally.I read the whole book and all the references to gay sex can be compiled into one (1) paragraph smaller, and less fancifully written, than the one about Humbert cumming from Lolita sitting in his lap (which is one among many in Lolita).You're an ultimate retard among retards. Kill your self at your earliest convenience. And Pale Fire did prove that if a fetish doesn't sit with an author - in this case homosexuality - the author wouldn't waste much time and effort upon it. And Nabokov did waste considerable effort describing two little girls (Lolita; Ada).
>>24985583That's cool that you know Kafka's intent.
>>24985229>>24985178is english an inferior language? being described as a bug like being and being a bug are totally different
>>24985175metamorphosis doesn't have to be read allegorically, and if you read kafka's other works, he is less allegorical and more weird than you'd think. although he definitely was inspired by the style of allegories to some extent.when discussing metamorphosis with people I know, it's always the ones who want to make it about the modern man or whatever that fail to remember the most important details, because they are unique to Gregor, like the frame in his room which he made.>>24985598>Why do some good artists and philosophers and such have random retarded opinions about fundamental aspects of human experience?nabokov hates generalities which allegories deal in, and he likes stories with particularity of style, detail, character etc which, if not completely antithetical to an allegory's intent (though particularity does hinder universality), is less important.
>>24985806Explain the meaningful difference for the purposes of Metamorphosis
